... I go along with what Michael wrote. Jirka Bolech...
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Jirka Bolech
jirka.bolech@xxxxx.xxx
Jan 12, 2000 8:44 pm
... So I simply put it in the wrong tense. One way or another, it is educational. Thanks. Jirka...
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Melvyn Clarke
zehrovak@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 12, 2000 11:28 pm
Greetings all, ... Michael responded: Should be "We accept...." The continuous verb forms in English seem to give Czech speakers more trouble than anything...
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Michael Grant
mgrant@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 13, 2000 12:33 am
Maybe "moment" isn't quite right, but I would still argue that there is a certain "anchoring" in a given point in time, or at least a vaguely defined span of...
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Melvyn Clarke
zehrovak@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 14, 2000 1:29 am
Hi Michael, ... is a certain "anchoring" in a given point in time, or at least a vaguely defined span of time which is conceived as a unit, implicit in your...
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Michael Grant
mgrant@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 14, 2000 3:45 am
... No wonder I had to give up teaching. :-) Michael...
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Martin Janda
martinjanda@xxxxx.xxx
Jan 12, 2000 9:04 am
... My favourites are Zaklady anglicke stylistiky (MacPherson, Academia, 96) and English or Czenglish (D. Sparling, SPN, 1990). I am afraid they are not very ...
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Kostas Zgafas
kzgafas@xx.xxx
Jan 14, 2000 6:09 pm
I have something good to solve grammar issues: In the Language International, vol 10.6 (1998), p. 23, Steven Pinker (PhD in Psychology from Harvard, teaching...
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Melvyn Clarke
zehrovak@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 14, 2000 11:36 pm
Ahoj Martine, ... kdyz mate tlumocit neco neprijemneho, nepravdiveho, agresivniho - casto si pak sam pripadam jako neprijemny agresivni lhar ...). Musi to byt...
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Melvyn Clarke
zehrovak@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 15, 2000 12:24 am
Hi Kostas, ... Psychology from Harvard, teaching at MIT since 1982) says: "Many prescriptive rules of grammar are just plain dumb and should be deleted from...
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Kostas Zgafas
kzgafas@xx.xxx
Jan 15, 2000 12:52 am
Melvyn: Are you familiar with this book? Would you recommend me to buy it? (I am pasting the book info from the Amazon site): ABC's of Languages and...
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Jirka Bolech
jirka.bolech@xxxxx.xxx
Jan 15, 2000 9:11 am
... The most popular English grammar reference and practice book on the Czech market, Raymond Murphy's English Grammar in Use, intermediate, gives this simple...
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Jirka Bolech
jirka.bolech@xxxxx.xxx
Jan 15, 2000 9:27 am
... and ... I know the latter and I bet it was first published before 1990. I find it a bit too hairsplitting in places. Among the useful titles I have...
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Melvyn Clarke
zehrovak@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 16, 2000 12:34 am
... Hmm, yes it is probably a more expedient explanation but does it convey the overtones? I would argue that it amounts to pretty much the same thing anyway....
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Melvyn Clarke
zehrovak@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 16, 2000 12:41 am
... Hi Kostas, No sorry, I don't know this work. ... If it is libraries you are after then the British Council Resource Centre on Narodni trida is the place...
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Melvyn Clarke
zehrovak@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 16, 2000 12:52 am
... Thanks Martin - I'll look into Zaklady. English - Czenglish - Jak se vyhnout cechismum has some great hints. Even advanced-level students seem to derive...
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Michael Grant
mgrant@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 16, 2000 2:55 am
... Seconded; as of two years ago it was certainly the best of its type that I had seen, especially in the Cz->En direction. Who is Caforio, anyway? His name...
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Kostas Zgafas
kzgafas@xx.xxx
Jan 16, 2000 12:51 pm
... Another book worth mentioning (but in a negative sense) is "Odborny slovnik cesko-anglicky z oblasti ekonomicke, obchodni, financni a pravni" by Kolektiv...
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Jirka Bolech
jirka.bolech@xxxxx.xxx
Jan 16, 2000 8:00 pm
... I don't have a clue, but I don't care either. If I see a book by him, it'll be a good reference for me, though. Jirka Bolech Liberec, CR...
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Jirka Bolech
jirka.bolech@xxxxx.xxx
Jan 16, 2000 7:56 pm
... the ... The book is for _intermediate_ students of English! Jirka Bolech Liberec, CR...
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Kostas Zgafas
kzgafas@xx.xxx
Jan 16, 2000 11:48 pm
Thank you, Melvyn, for your help. Kostas ... couple ... on...
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Michael Grant
mgrant@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 17, 2000 12:02 am
... Is that the one with the yellow cover? Yes, it's a piece of crap. The Odborny slovnik cesko-anglicky z oblasti danove a ucetni by Bocankova, Kalina, and...
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Kostas Zgafas
kzgafas@xx.xxx
Jan 17, 2000 1:11 am
... slovnikcesko-anglicky z oblasti ekonomicke, obchodni, financni a pravni" by ... No, its a white book with red letters on the cover. What I appreciate is...
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Michael Grant
mgrant@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 17, 2000 2:03 am
... Right, that's the one I was thinking of. Useless. The yellow ones are Czech-German, aren't they? Michael...
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Kostas Zgafas
kzgafas@xx.xxx
Jan 17, 2000 2:06 am
And you woudn´t believe if I tell you that a friend of mine gave me xeroxed pages of an old Poldauf´s economic dictionary made in 60´s , and it matched ...
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Martin Janda
martinjanda@...
Jan 16, 2000 4:08 pm
... Musis zapomenout, kdo jsi, a jen nechat prochazet hlavou, co slysis - a poustet to usty ven (samozrejme s rozumovou kontrolou, abys nevypoustel blbosti)....
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Martin Janda
martinjanda@...
Jan 16, 2000 4:21 pm
... Is there really that necessary to explain everything? There is only one rule I can see and observe: read, listen and learn - and ignore awkward ...
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Otto Pacholik
pacholik@...
Jan 17, 2000 2:12 pm
... I do agree this dictionary is quite useful. Ther reason is, IMHO, technical terms have to stay identic notwithstanding a political regime. There exists a...
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Otto Pacholik
pacholik@...
Jan 17, 2000 2:12 pm
... You are perfectly right. But the yellow ones come from the Fraus publishing house, not from Linde. English dictionaries published by Fraus are blue. Otto...
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Martin Janda
martinjanda@...
Jan 17, 2000 1:54 pm
... slovnik ... Seconded. I´ve got an earlier edition (1994), and I can almost never find what I am looking for. But what is really great is a SW En/Cz...
